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Security specialist Symantec will now be bolstering security to for Microsoft Azure and Office 365 environments via an extended partnership between the two companies, making it easier for businesses to adopt hybrid cloud, while giving partners more cloud security opportunities.

Thomas H. Lee Partners agreed to buy the developer of open-source enterprise content management and business process software for an undisclosed sum, with a strategy for continued growth and market disruption.

'There's tremendous affinity to the channel across the management team and the channel is our growth engine, so we intend to nurture it even more now,' says Ali Din, who will lead marketing across both companies.

From startups to more established companies, innovative products are changing the cloud software game and broadening and accelerating its adoption. Here are 20 companies at the forefront of that transformation.

The company's undisputed technology prowess along with a maniacal focus on nurturing and developing long-lasting customer relationships is driving record sales with plans for even bigger growth in the years ahead.

The cloud is becoming an ever-more important part of the definition of data protection, disaster recovery and archiving, and these 19 vendors are helping partners utilize AWS in their storage infrastructures.

Called the Cisco Container Platform, the system gives partners a clear path into lucrative application lifecycle management and other services sold on a recurring revenue basis, and as the platform expands, those opportunities will only grow, executives said.